Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance those who prefer violent realism...
Lady Frances Wentworth revealed the calm realism of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), an apt painter of the gentlefolk whose silks and satins rustled primly through the streets of pre-Revolutionary Boston. His Brass Crosby was technically more assured, exemplified his work as an official painter of important London figures. Not hanging was his famed portrait of the Knatchbull family which took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters...
...most sincere, and for that reason perhaps the best contribution is the story, "Community Nurse" by J. A. Strauss. The self-conscious detachment which the criticism labored to maintain is here replaced by an unaffected and sensitive objectivity. It is true that the realism is frequently too studiously casual, yet the tension and the pathos of a small town in the Southwest have been caught with remarkable fidelity. The articulation of the story is sometimes creaky; Jack and Laura, for instance, as characters are lorded more heavily than their shoulders can bear. Yet it would be well...
...description of the famous playwright by W. A. Dollard, one of the former's English friends. "Satire on the College Chapel" furnishes the poetry for this issue, written by James L. LeB. Boyle '36. The fourth and final article is a criticism written by George R. Carnahan '37 named "Realism and Romanticism...
...seemed to have no fixed opinions on the matter was Postmaster General Farley. Conservative Architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich who designed the building favored a classical allegory. But Edward Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building!" Aligned with Mr. Bruce and helping to create a deadlock was Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans. Being put in position last week in the Bepartment of Agriculture...